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Byron Murphy II: "I'm Feeling Great" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: We've seen you out on the field.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure it's not fun.
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  Speaker 1: Rehappy, But what did you learn about yourself throughout the
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  Speaker 1: last few weeks?
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  Speaker 2: Uh? What did I learned about myself that? Uh No,
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  Speaker 2: I'm strong minded, you know, I'm all about the team,
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  Speaker 2: you know. Uh also too, what I learned when I
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  Speaker 2: was out. Uh, just you know, staying patient, you know,
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  Speaker 2: just taking it day by day. Just uh being positive,
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  Speaker 2: you know, trying to keep my teammates, teammates up and everything.
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  Speaker 1: The most challenging hurt.
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  Speaker 2: The most challenging part was uh really just you know,
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  Speaker 2: going through that whole little phase, cause you know, I
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  Speaker 2: never never been hurt, never had a any type of injury.
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  Speaker 2: Uh so for me to have an injury, uh, at
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  Speaker 2: this level for the first time in my career, it
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  Speaker 2: was a lot. But I'm happy I went through it.
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  Speaker 2: Uh just a little adversary. Just happy I got through it.
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  Speaker 2: Though out here, I'm sorry. How are you doing now?
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing great, doing d like Sunday, Yes, sir, cause
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  Speaker 2: he's the first day and you heard whatshod set again?
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  Speaker 2: These the first game you've ever missed? Yeah, just yeah, stuff,
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  Speaker 2: I ain't never missed a game to it now.
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  Speaker 1: Is there any hesitation?
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes it's hard to come back to the history, right.
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  Speaker 2: Is there any hesitation to test out that hamstring? Uh? No,
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  Speaker 2: no hesitation. I'm I'm confident. I'm feeling great, hum, great,
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  Speaker 2: hundred percent good.
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  Speaker 1: How did you feel like you were you were playing
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  Speaker 1: it until tedl you got.
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  Speaker 2: Hurt those games? I feel like I was playing pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like everything uh my sto uh the way
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  Speaker 2: I was playing for like everything that was going in
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  Speaker 2: the right direction while I was playing great.
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  Speaker 1: Did you hear things in in meetings a little bit differently,
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  Speaker 1: like knowing that you were gonna play, were you able
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  Speaker 1: to see the game from a different vantage point and
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  Speaker 1: have different conversations as a result. Uh?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, you know I kind of seen the uh the game,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the games you know, and the game plan
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  Speaker 2: shitt for a little bit, you know, since I was
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  Speaker 2: out you know, of course, you know, uh, it was
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  Speaker 2: a bit different, but you know, just still trying to
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  Speaker 2: stay locked in. I understand the game plan even though
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't playings al Ren.
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  Speaker 1: Uh. A lot of folks pre draft kind of compared
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  Speaker 1: you to gret Rady Jarrett, What do you know about
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  Speaker 1: his game and and what have been know about him.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, I know, I know a lot about his game.
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  Speaker 2: You know, me and Grady got the same, like similar
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  Speaker 2: kind of build. You know. He's a fast, twitchy guy,
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  Speaker 2: strong guy just like me. Uh. Played very aggressive, you know,
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  Speaker 2: very good player. You know, I watched his tape. Watched
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  Speaker 2: his tape a lot, you know, especially pre p pre
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  Speaker 2: draft Washington, Washington, when I got here. So uh, man,
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  Speaker 2: he's a he's a great player, very dominant player. Y.
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  Speaker 1: You were facing quite a few double teams, I think
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  Speaker 1: before you got hurt, and maybe the play that you
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  Speaker 1: got hurt you might have been that might have been
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  Speaker 1: one of those. What was that like, just getting all
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  Speaker 1: that attention from offenses?
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  Speaker 2: Uh, you know, well, I'm I'm used to it, you know.
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  Speaker 2: I mean I was getting double team in college. So
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  Speaker 2: just getting double team here, Uh, you know, I'm used
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  Speaker 2: to ain't there ain't nothing new to me. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: I'm you know, if I'm getting double team, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I feel like I'm doing my job. So you know,
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  Speaker 2: I ain't all about the stats and anything. If I'm
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  Speaker 2: doing if I'm getting double team, everybody else eating, So
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  Speaker 2: that's all that matters to me. Along those lines, with
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  Speaker 2: the run defense.
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  Speaker 1: So obviously it's been a little bit of an issue
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  Speaker 1: in recent weeks. How much you feel like you it's
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  Speaker 1: never on one guy, but do you feel like you
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  Speaker 1: can help help out that area?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, most definitely. I feel I can help out a lot,
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  Speaker 2: you know, uh me, you know that's what I do.
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  Speaker 2: You know, i'm' forcing a run game. You know, I
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  Speaker 2: also passed too, but me being there in the run game,
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna help out a lot.
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  Speaker 1: There was a lot of talk of that Atlanta might
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  Speaker 1: have been a team that was gonna draft you. Is
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  Speaker 1: there something you wanna, you know, show out going into Atlanta? Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, they you know I heard, I did
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  Speaker 2: hear that Atlanta was supposed to draft me. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I heard rumors about that. But you know, they passed
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  Speaker 2: up on me, so you know, that's they that's their fault.
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  Speaker 2: You know, that's a big loss for them, So they
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  Speaker 2: will feel me someday, sir. Good.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks